Alec Baldwin what the fuck
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I have no details at all, just a breaking headline,
But it’s still a huge what the fuck.
I’ll just leave this here and let everyone else fill up the thread. I’ve got a busy day.
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Back in the early 60s, my brother had a friend who had a gun with blanks in it. Everyone told the guy to be careful. The guy with the gun said, "they're blanks" and then demonstrated by shooting a hole through a 55 gallon drum. They were blanks - but supposedly the material they were stuffed with had hardened - and so...could have been quite deadly.
When nurses are giving chemotherapy medications to patients, two of them review each order to ensure that no mistakes are made. I would think at least two people should review and have a test firing of any prop gun being employed on a movie set before anyone handles a gun.
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Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
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@jolly said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
That advice would be difficult to follow as an actor for a Western movie.
That said, it's curious that he killed somebody who is not an actor. Bad aim?
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@jolly said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
That advice would be difficult to follow as an actor for a Western movie.
That said, it's curious that he killed somebody who is not an actor. Bad aim?
@klaus said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
@jolly said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
That advice would be difficult to follow as an actor for a Western movie.
That said, it's curious that he killed somebody who is not an actor. Bad aim?
If it's a prop gun, presumably it's not actually designed to shoot, so something lodged in the barrel could come out at an angle?
I was only joking
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Horrible. I couldn’t imagine going through what Baldwin is.
@89th It’s happened before. Brandon Lee, for one…
@lufins-dad said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Horrible. I couldn’t imagine going through what Baldwin is.
@89th It’s happened before. Brandon Lee, for one…
I know, I think there was another person in the 80s too.
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I wonder why they have a loaded gun on a film set.
It's not clear to me from the few details I read whether this was a normal real gun or some kind of fake gun. If the latter, why is it possible to shoot somebody with it?
@klaus said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
I wonder why they have a loaded gun on a film set.
It's not clear to me from the few details I read whether this was a normal real gun or some kind of fake gun. If the latter, why is it possible to shoot somebody with it?
My guess is he was horsing around with what he thought was a prop gun. Agreed it makes sense prop guns can even be loaded, although I'm sure the ones they use now fire real flash/bang actions. But still...an actual bullet you think would not be possible to load.
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@klaus said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
@jolly said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
That advice would be difficult to follow as an actor for a Western movie.
That said, it's curious that he killed somebody who is not an actor. Bad aim?
If it's a prop gun, presumably it's not actually designed to shoot, so something lodged in the barrel could come out at an angle?
@doctor-phibes said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
@klaus said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
@jolly said in Alec Baldwin what the fuck:
Never point a gun, loaded or unloaded, at anything you don't intend to kill.
That advice would be difficult to follow as an actor for a Western movie.
That said, it's curious that he killed somebody who is not an actor. Bad aim?
If it's a prop gun, presumably it's not actually designed to shoot, so something lodged in the barrel could come out at an angle?
Prop guns many times are made from rubber or plastic. For it to fire, it's probably a working firearm. The question is, what was the projectile?
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https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/prop-gun-used-by-alec-baldwin-in-shooting-contained-live-round-union/
The prop gun Alec Baldwin used in the accidental shooting that killed a cinematographer on his upcoming movie “Rust” and wounded the director reportedly contained a “live round.”
A union that covers prop masters sent an email to its members Friday morning in which it said “a single live round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor,” according to Indie Wire.
Anthony Pawluc, secretary-treasurer of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 44, wrote that the bullet struck “both the Director of Photography, Local 600 member Halnya Hutchins, and Director Joel Souza,” the site reported.
“Local 44 has confirmed that the Props, Set Decoration, Special Effects and Construction Departments were staffed by New Mexico crew members. There were no Local 44 members on the call sheet,” the email cited by Indie Wire added.
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@george-k No, that is the million dollar question. There are really 3 options, in order of probability:
- They practiced shooting real guns to better understand how to properly handle one in the movie.
- Someone bought fake/bang bullets not realizing they were real bullets.
- Someone set up Alec, big time.
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@george-k No, that is the million dollar question. There are really 3 options, in order of probability:
- They practiced shooting real guns to better understand how to properly handle one in the movie.
- Someone bought fake/bang bullets not realizing they were real bullets.
- Someone set up Alec, big time.
@89th I don't rule any of these out, but I can't really buy your #1. What's to practice? You point and shoot. Is there anybody who hasn't seen a movie actor do this a thousand times?
To this day, street skells point their guns sideways thinking that's the correct and therefore kewl way to do it -- all unknowing that that positioning was the brainchild of a film director who devised it as a means of pointing the weapon without obscuring the shooter's hand.
As for the other two, I can't think about them now; my brain is shut down by the thunder of the feet of a thousand onrushing lawyers.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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Somebody call Angela Lansbury…
Waiting for Marjorie Taylor Greene to come shrieking down the chimney to pronouce this event retribution from God on Baldwin for his mockery of Trump on SNL.
